Music bookSongs We All Know · Level 2 · Sing Along
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- 10 spreads
- About 6 min of song
- English · Español
Old MacDonald had a farm, and on that farm... a cow! A sheep, a chick, a dog, a duck, a pig, a horse and a cat, each one big on its own page and making its own sound. But who is hiding on every page? Sing the farm song everyone knows, make every sound, and find the tiny mouse, who gets the quietest verse of all. Animal sounds in English and Spanish.
Level 2 · Sing Along
Sing the parts that come back.
The child: Sings the chorus and the lines that repeat, answers a call, says their own name in the song.
The grown-up: Leads the verses and hands over the parts that come back. Pause points and the name round fit here.
What the levels meanGoals
- Communicationvocal imitation of animal sounds; early sounds m, b, p, w, then k, n; fill-in of the animal name
- Socialturn-taking on the sounds
- Cognitiveanimal names and sounds, find the mouse
In a session
Fill-in (pause before the animal: "he had a ... cow"), sound imitation, turn-taking ("here a moo" adult, "there a moo" child), E-I-E-I-O shout, find-it, a whisper verse
Session ideas
- Sound turns
- Choose the animal
- Fill the farm
The full ideas open with the book.
2 activity kits for this book
Downloadable, to print or use on screen. They come with the book.
